By Vernon Bagley on 2/18/2008 4:19 PM

“BERKELEY, Calif. —  Local officials in this liberal city say it's time for the U.S. Marines to move out.” (excerpts below)

For those of us who were in the military during the ‘60’s and 70’s and even those who were not remember the venomous, hateful, piercing rhetoric that came from a political point of view that anything military was wrong.  That anyone who served in the military during this period was stupid, dumb, disadvantaged, and morally corrupt and those who served in Vietnam were even more of a threat to our national pride, international standing, and personal security than those who were trying to overturn the South Vietnamese government. 

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By Vernon Bagley on 1/12/2008 1:36 PM

Yesterday, January 11, 2008, was a phenomenal day in the history of Military Families Foundation, Inc. / Project “We Remember”. The American Express Foundation provided our first major corporate grant that has enabled us to open the first unit to benefit the families and members of our active duty servicemen and our Veterans. American Express Read More »

By Vernon Bagley on 12/23/2007 9:36 PM

Most of you have heard me speak about the “Power of One” and how one person or one corporation can step forward and change the world. Sometimes the world that is changed is the world of another human being and sometimes the world that is changed can be as large as a nation or the world. This is a story about one person’s “World.” Read More »

By Vernon Bagley on 12/22/2007 11:23 AM

All too often we forget that in every conflict that our nation has experienced there have been courageous women who have served in the armed services. Their contributions to our freedoms are as important and heroic as the next person. Every time a woman has entered the military service she has done so as a “Volunteer”. In my eyes this makes her contributions even more significant and heroic. There has never been a draft for women but they have always been there to help protect our nation’s freedoms.

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